van der Vaart, Gwenda

van der Vaart, Gwenda

Postdoctoral researcher

Department of Spatial Planning and Environment at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen

Research interest

Gwenda van der Vaart - Dr. Gwenda van der Vaart is a Postdoc within the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. Her research interests include community development, arts & culture, sense of place, and creative and arts-based research methods.

Biography

Gwenda conducted her PhD research titled ‘Arts & Resilience in a Rural Community. The value of arts-based community activities in resilience-building in Pingjum, northern Netherlands’ at the Department of Cultural Geography of the same faculty. In light of her PhD research, she conducted an innovative research project, which used a mix of creative and arts-based research methods. Since 1st May 2019, Gwenda started working as a Postdoc. She is collaborating with prof. dr. Ina Horlings and mainly works on the cultural project ‘Gronings Vuur’ (also with Gea Smidt and Scott Davis) and within RECOMS' perceptions of risk: adaptive community strategies.  

Websites

https://www.rug.nl/staff/g.van.der.vaart/

Recent publications

  • van der Vaart, G. (2018). Arts & Resilience in a Rural Community. The value of arts-based community activities in resilience-building in Pingjum, northern Netherlands. Groningen: Netzodruk.
  • van der Vaart, G., van Hoven, B. & Huigen, P.P.P. (2018). Creative and Arts-Based Research Methods in Academic Research. Lessons from a Participatory Research Project in The Netherlands. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.2.2961
  • van der Vaart, G., van Hoven, B. & Huigen, P.P.P. (2018). The role of the arts in coping with place change at the coast. Area,https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12417
  • van der Vaart, G., van Hoven, B. & Huigen, P.P.P. (2018). The Value of Participatory Community Arts for Community Resilience. In: E-M. Trell, B. Restemeyer, M.M. Bakema & B. van Hoven (Eds.), Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places (pp. 186-204). Abingdon: Routledge.
  • van der Vaart, G., van Hoven, B. & Huigen, P.P.P. (2017). ‘It is not only an artist village, it is much more than that’. The binding and dividing effects of the arts on a community.Community Development Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsx055

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